Staff photo / Allie Vurgrincic Dennis Kochever, Jr., of Monvtille, Ohio, Jeff Kihorany of Fairport, Ohio, Nick Caputo, Phillip Collins, 15, and Jake Stead 15, roll tires they purchased at the Canfield Fairgrounds.

CANFIELD — The old adage “one person’s trash is another person’s treasure” held true Saturday as thousands of people sifted through mismatched car parts, antiques, old and new toys, bargain household items and some truly odd creations at the Canfield Fairgrounds.

What may have seemed like junk to some was exactly what others were searching for at Dave and Ed’s Super Swap Meet.

Evan Bundy, Kade Hilterman and Jake Lippert, all from the Pittsburgh area, pulled a cart they made themselves filled with an odd selection of items: a mini bike frame, bull horns, a transmission and an air filter.

When asked if they came to find anything in particular, they said: a mini bike frame, bull horns, a transmission and an air filter. And they found it all within just a few minutes of arriving, they said.

“It’s huge,” Bundy said of the swap meet, which looped around the track and ran the length of the fairgrounds and several blocks back behind the grandstand. Bundy said he comes to the swap “every time” it’s held.

“If you can’t find it here, it doesn’t exist,” said Jeff Kihorany of Fairport, Ohio. Along with Dennis Kochever Jr. of Montville, Ohio, and 15-year-olds Jake Stead and Collin Phillips, Kihorany was helping Nick Caputo move four freshly purchased tires the old-fashioned way — by rolling them, all the way back to the parking lot.

“Fortunately, they’re not square, so they roll OK,” Caputo joked.

Kihorany said he’s been coming to the swap meet since he was about 10, and he’s 40 now. Admitting there were some oddities there, he said the strangest thing he’d seen Saturday was an old refrigerator that someone converted into a trailer.

Caputo added he’d seen a one-person golf cart that also was unique.

Most in attendance at the event pulled carts or rode motor scooters, bicycles or tricycles with baskets to hold their purchases, or, if necessary, teamed up to carry large objects.

While one really could find just about everything, the swap meet was an especially good place to find old car parts, said Scott Halicki of Hubbard, who is building a 1971 Monte Carlo and took some time away from selling other cars at the meet to scope out parts.

He also said the most interesting items he saw at the meet were unusual vehicles people had built, “really using their imagination.”

Weather permitting, the meet continues 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. today.